Question Section A

Section A: Theoretical Evaluation of Production (50 marks)

This section gives you the opportunity to write about your productions over the two years and there are two compulsory questions. The first requires you to describe and evaluate your skill development over the course of your production work, from Foundation Portfolio to Advanced Portfolio. The second will ask you to identify one production and evaluate it in relation to one theoretical concept.

Question 1 (a) The focus of this evaluation must be on skills development and in the examination questions will be posed using one or two of the following categories:

• Digital technology
• Creativity
• Research and planning
• Post-production
• Using conventions from real media texts

Question 1 (b) requires you to select one production (work undertaken as AS or A2, main task or preliminary/ancillary) and evaluate it in relation to a media concept from the following list:

• Genre
• Narrative
• Representation
• Audience
• Media Language